I want to protect you and your loved ones from becoming victims of crimes by the catholic church and all abusers of human beings. I want to give survivors of sexual and physical abuse a voice to be heard all over the world. All abuse of children and adults by religious groups and by any organization or individual must be stopped. We can add our voices to a growing, worldwide community of people who want truth and justice. Please share your experiences with me and others on this blog.

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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

For
years in the 1970s and 1980s pedophile priest Eric Dejaeger victimized Inuit
(Eskimo or native people living in artic regions in the U.S. and Canada). The 67-year old Dejaeger who was previously
defrocked but not locked up – has been found guilty on 24 of 68 charges against
him. His crimes were horrific: 24 counts of indecent assault, one of unlawful
confinement, two of buggery, three of unlawful sexual intercourse, one of
sexual assault and one of bestiality according to CBC News in Canada. Dejaeger’s
victims were 12 boys, 10 girls and a dog he raped in front of two children.
Most were between the ages of eight and 12, with some as young as four and as
old as 18. So God’s creatures as well as children are fair game for rapist
priests.

Dejaeger
had escaped to Belgium in 1995, hiding there illegally. He was sent back to
Canada in 2011 through the efforts of Lieve Halsberghe, one of several human
rights activists who helped track down Dejaeger in Belgium. She said that the victims “showed extreme
courage to face this monster after so many years and so much suffering.” The victims were afraid that no one would
believe them --their parents did not believe them when they tried to tell them
that they were forced to watch Dejaeger rape a dog.

Many
of us want to know how Dejaeger got away with such abuse for so long. He used
the same tactics that all rapist priests use: cajoling them with treats and using
food to control poor and hungry kids. He directly assaulted them: one witness told
of being taped to a bed and raped from behind as a child. Dejaeger also
threatened them with “hellfire or separation from their families” if they told
on him, according to CBC News.

Dejaeger
had originally spent 5 years in prison on earlier charges but in 1995 he avoided
a second set of charges when he fled to Belgium. He will be sentenced in January 2015.

Why
is it so easy to commit these crimes and get away with them? It is because the catholic church follows the
Doctrine of Discovery. In the 15-century
papal bulls (laws) gave representatives of the catholic church permission to
seize lands of Indigenous Peoples (native Americans, including in Canada) and to colonize their lands. The result was
the wiping out of native languages and cultures.

The
popes of the Roman Catholic Church encouraged the kings of Portugal and Spain
to conquer “undiscovered” lands, enslave their non-Christian populations and steal
their possessions and resources. The doctrine even gave Europeans the right to
kill or enslave people who refused to convert to Christianity. This agreement among European nations stated
that whichever nation arrived first had the right to explore, colonize and steal
the land’s resources. The non-Christian indigenous (native) peoples did not
have the right to own the land, only to occupy it.

It’s
not just the church that follows this law. The Doctrine of Discovery has been
on the U.S. legal books since 1823, when it was approved by a Supreme Court
decision. It was still being used in 2005 in a land case against the Oneida
Indian Nation of New York who was required to pay property taxes on native
lands it had bought back from the city of Sherrill, N.Y.

How
can so-called civilized religious organizations and countries stick to a law that
blessed the massacre of millions of native people? The U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
called for Pope Benedict XVI to revoke and renounce this doctrine in 2006,
calling it: "racist," "morally condemnable" and
"socially unjust" -- but there was no response. As recently as last week, Pope Francis was
also ignoring requests to stop these practices. Why does it continue? Because Pope Francis and
the rest of the catholic church want access to native people, children and
animals for their evil and greedy practices. We have to stop them.

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When I was three and a half years old, I and my five year
old brother Frankie were raped by a catholic priest and put in St. Agnes Home and School in Sparkill, NY. I was beaten every day and then smothered by a catholic
nun. I didn't die but I was in a coma for almost year, leaving me brain damaged. After we got out, my
brother killed himself because he couldn't help me or accept the abuse we received. I want everyone to know
about the brutality and crime then and still going on in the catholic church. I want to stop
the crimes the church commits against our children and us and get justice for the victims. Give me your ideas
so that we all succeed in making this world safer for our children.